Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2016-06-10 13:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Ron Liepert (Calgary Signal Hill, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Ron Liepert (Calgary Signal Hill, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4419624\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today as the final speaker on the bill, which has plodded along through the process in the House. I thought I would recap for members of the House how we have gotten to where we are today, describe what the process has been throughout, and then conclude by making a few comments about the bill itself.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419625\" data-originallang=\"en\">The bill was concocted without the input of Canadians. Typically, in a budget process, Canadians are consulted about what they would like in the budget, but we had a situation, after the October 19 campaign, where, I would say, due to the ineptness of the government in early December, the government House leader was unable to strike a finance committee. We all knew who was on the finance committee, but unfortunately, the government could not get the committee struck in early December. Therefore, members of the finance committee sat around for about six weeks without actually consulting Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419626\" data-originallang=\"en\">By the time the government managed to get approval to strike the finance committee, the committee heard some 92 witnesses over a period of about a week or a week and a half. However, we also knew in early February when we heard those witnesses that the budget had probably already gone or was very close to heading to the printer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419627\" data-originallang=\"en\">One thing this budget has clearly lacked is the input of everyday Canadians through consultation. With all due respect, I think the finance minister had a great deal of difficulty pulling together this budget, because he was hamstrung with the fact that so many promises had been made in the campaign. He was stuck with trying to put together a budget based on a bunch of promises in which, quite frankly, the dollars did not add up.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419628\" data-originallang=\"en\">It also included a number of broken promises. A promise was given in the election campaign, whereby the Liberal leader of the day, now the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a>, promised that the budget would have no more than a $10-billion deficit. We all know that promise was broken very quickly. We are not sure yet if $30 billion is the final number for the deficit. During the short period of time since the budget was introduced, as an example, there was a horrible situation in Alberta with the fires. As a result of that, the federal government is going to be on the hook for some significant costs associated with the wildfires in Alberta, so I think the deficit could go well past the $30 billion.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419629\" data-originallang=\"en\">While it was not a broken promise, it was a promise that I personally would have liked to see the finance minister break, and that was the ill-conceived decision to reverse former finance minister Flaherty's decision to increase, some 10 years into the future, the eligibility age for OAS to 67 from 65. This particular decision was not based on any particular science or data, which, of course, the Liberal government keeps saying it prides itself on. It was based on a back-of-the-napkin campaign promise made by the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> and it is one that I wish the federal government had not followed through on.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419630\" data-originallang=\"en\">As I said earlier, this is a budget that I do not believe the <a data-HoCid=\"214320\" href=\"/politicians/bill-morneau/\" title=\"Bill Morneau\">Minister of Finance</a> felt good about presenting. I know how that feels, as someone who has had to present a budget based on some campaign promises made simply to get elected. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419631\" data-originallang=\"en\">I see the benches of the government are starting to fill up as is the press gallery. I do not think they are filling up to listen to my speech, so I will sit down and let the House proceed on to the business of the day.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4419624\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis le dernier \u00e0 prendre la parole au sujet de projet de loi, qui continue de faire son chemin \u00e0 la Chambre. J'ai pens\u00e9 que je pourrais rappeler aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s comment nous sommes arriv\u00e9s o\u00f9 nous sommes aujourd'hui, exposer le processus suivi et terminer par quelques observations sur le projet de loi proprement dit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419625\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le projet de loi a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9labor\u00e9 sans l'apport des Canadiens. D'habitude, dans un processus budg\u00e9taire, on consulte la population sur ce qu'elle aime du budget, mais apr\u00e8s les \u00e9lections du 19 octobre, nous nous sommes trouv\u00e9s dans une situation o\u00f9, je dirais, \u00e0 cause de l'ineptie du gouvernement, le leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre a \u00e9t\u00e9 incapable de former un comit\u00e9 des finances au d\u00e9but de d\u00e9cembre. Nous savions tous qui allait faire partie de ce comit\u00e9, mais malheureusement, le gouvernement n'a pas pu le mettre sur pied au d\u00e9but de d\u00e9cembre. C'est pourquoi les membres du comit\u00e9 des finances ont si\u00e9g\u00e9 pendant environ six semaines sans consulter les Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419626\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand le gouvernement a fini par obtenir l'autorisation de mettre sur pied le comit\u00e9 des finances, celui-ci a entendu quelque 92 t\u00e9moins en une semaine ou une semaine et demie environ. Cependant, lorsque nous avons entendu ces t\u00e9moins, au d\u00e9but de f\u00e9vrier, nous savions aussi que le budget \u00e9tait probablement d\u00e9j\u00e0 parti ou \u00e0 la veille de partir chez l'imprimeur. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419627\" data-originallang=\"en\">S'il est une chose qui ressort au premier coup d'oeil, c'est que le budget n'a aucunement tenu compte des opinions que les Canadiens ont exprim\u00e9es lors des consultations. Avec tout le respect que je dois au ministre des Finances, j'ai l'impression que son budget lui a donn\u00e9 beaucoup de fil \u00e0 retordre parce qu'il devait composer avec les tr\u00e8s nombreuses promesses qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 faites pendant la campagne \u00e9lectorale. Il devait concocter un budget \u00e0 partir d'un paquet de promesses qui, il faut le dire, ne tenaient absolument pas la route, financi\u00e8rement parlant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419628\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le budget compte \u00e9galement un certain nombre de promesses rompues. Pendant la campagne \u00e9lectorale, le chef lib\u00e9ral, qui est aujourd'hui <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a>, avait par exemple promis que le budget n'entra\u00eenerait pas un d\u00e9ficit sup\u00e9rieur \u00e0 10 milliards de dollars. Ai-je vraiment besoin de rappeler la vitesse \u00e0 laquelle cette promesse a \u00e9t\u00e9 rompue? Impossible, par contre, de savoir si le d\u00e9ficit se limitera vraiment aux 30 milliards de dollars annonc\u00e9s. Pendant le court laps de temps \u00e9coul\u00e9 depuis que le budget a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9, l'Alberta a par exemple \u00e9t\u00e9 le th\u00e9\u00e2tre de terribles feux de for\u00eat. Comme cela signifie des frais importants pour le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, on peut ais\u00e9ment supposer que le budget d\u00e9passera amplement les 30 milliards de dollars.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419629\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 l'oppos\u00e9, il y a une promesse que j'aurais bien aim\u00e9 que le ministre des Finances ne tienne pas, celle de revenir sur la d\u00e9cision de l'ancien ministre Flaherty de faire passer, dans une dizaine d'ann\u00e9es, l'\u00e2ge d'admissibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 de la vieillesse de 65 \u00e0 67 ans. M\u00eame si les lib\u00e9raux ne cessent de se targuer que leurs d\u00e9cisions reposent sur des bases scientifiques, force est de constater que ce n'est pas le cas cette fois-ci. Il s'agit plut\u00f4t d'une d\u00e9cision prise sur un coup de t\u00eate par le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> pendant la campagne \u00e9lectorale. J'aurais bien aim\u00e9, pour une fois, que les lib\u00e9raux ne tiennent pas parole.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419630\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme je l\u2019ai dit, je ne crois pas que le <a data-HoCid=\"214320\" href=\"/politicians/bill-morneau/\" title=\"Bill Morneau\">ministre des Finances</a> ait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019aise de pr\u00e9senter ce budget. Je sais ce que l\u2019on ressent quand on doit pr\u00e9senter un budget fond\u00e9 sur des promesses de campagne que l\u2019on a faites simplement pour \u00eatre \u00e9lu.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4419631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vois que les banquettes minist\u00e9rielles commencent \u00e0 se remplir, comme la tribune de la presse. Mais je ne pense pas que l\u2019on vienne pour entendre mon discours. Je vais donc m\u2019asseoir et laisser la Chambre poursuivre ses travaux.</p>"
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    "url": "/debates/2016/6/10/ron-liepert-2/",
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    "source_id": "8988248",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1",
        "fr": "Loi no 1 d\u2019ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2016"
    },
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